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National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

Oddly there was nothing about it until just now. You'd probably have some comments. I was interested in William Farr and the committees in the early years, but there are obviously numerous aspects. I expect the structure of the "departments", as for the BAAS, was a complicated and dynamic thing. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:16, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I'd noticed it was missing but somehow never got round to doing anything about it. Lawrence Goldman, the ODNB editor, has given it a book-length treatment. Well done for starting it... I'll have a look. Dsp13 (talk) 18:07, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

New DNB gadget

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Archive 2#Ratios tool. This is to prioritise in cases where the WP article exists (and is something I've wanted for a while).

User:Magnus Manske/dnb ws no wp is to prioritise the case where the WP article doesn't yet exist. That list should be refreshed, but I want to complete a pass through with the DNB match tool first.

The advent of Labs has made the whole thing much more sensible. Possibly we could have a more complex "DNB dashboard" in future. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:51, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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Emma Anne Paterson

I'm getting closer to the point where I could compile a list of missing women's biographies from the DNB. One that has just gone past me is Emma Anne Paterson, labour activist. Doesn't currently fit in anywhere, which probably means the context is also missing. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:24, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

looks like it was just a redirect we needed? Dsp13 (talk) 17:08, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks anyway! Charles Matthews (talk) 06:33, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

I added DNB stuff to what we had - and I'd be interested in helping with the list of missing women! Dsp13 (talk) 09:20, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Speaking of which, there is a Gillian Fenwick book just about women and the DNB, which I was looking at in the UL yesterday. That was re Mavis Batey and her middle name, in fact – which came up as a result of an editathon at the NIMR and Sue Black on Twitter. Very interesting that the German Wikipedia had an article on her before we did: women "missing in English" would seem to be massive, if for the future.

This is a hot topic right now, with people catching up with the realities of redlink lists, redirects where there should be an article, stubbiness and tagging issues (e.g. for The Dinner Party, women scientists and so on). I should actually set aside a couple of days and go through the DNB Map2WP list to get the raw redlink list from the DNB on Wikisource. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:30, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I have some women redlink lists at User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Women. WP: WikiProject Women's History has some active editors. Women in de but missing from en is the sort of query that Wikidata will make easier. Redirects from women to their husband often go undetected for a long time: it would be nice if they could get identified and categorised. What's the DNB Map2WP list? Dsp13 (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I did a sample list at User:Charles Matthews/DNB missing women/N. I chose N as one of the shorter letters, representing say 3% of the total missing, which is about 8,500 now. So it was a short job suggesting a couple of hundred to do in all. Which is maybe a bit on the low side.

Map2WP is the proper name of the old tool that tends to get called "DNB match". It is running much better now that it has been migrated to Labs.

Anyway I should do some more now. Charles Matthews (talk) 18:46, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Done, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Missing women. Mary Hennell is one of the more interesting ones. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:06, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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Barnstar

Mind the Gap Award
for your efforts writing womens history, especially Ellen Hollond. (i took the liberty of adding an image and infobox). keep up the good work !!! Duckduckgo (talk) 16:49, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
thank you very much for the barnstar, and even more so for the image and infobox - I'm not good at either of those. I'm trying to work through Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Missing women, and Ellen Hollond was a good find! Dsp13 (talk) 19:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

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Meetup round again

Saturday: m:Meetup/Cambridge/19. Charles Matthews (talk) 18:38, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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BDMRat

I had my hands on a physical copy of the Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists recently and since it generates an high proportion of blue links I decided to continue your work. Most of the effort is the interesting job of hunting those cases that come out as red links on first edit but if you have anything in your sandbox that might be useful, eg. a state with the names unshouted, please let me know. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 14:28, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

I have found User:Charles Matthews/McCabe. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 15:10, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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